Analyzes contractual commitments and customer requirements to develop and implement configuration management/document control plans and procedures, which will support the various programs from the conceptual stage through the life cycle of the products

Responsible for commercial and defense program Configuration Management: managing internal & external requirements, Statement of Work (SOW) requirements flow-downs, CDRL and SDRL management & statusing, file deliverables through secure website/portals, part number issuance/document sign-offs – ECO and BoM releases, and building master configuration lists for radomes, reflectors, and structural composite products for use in high performance airborne, ground based, shipboard and submarine installations

Member of ERP Implementation Core Team which helped transition the division away from flat parts lists to fully structured Bills-of-Materials (BoMs)

Imports and applies change control to new parts and bills-of-materials into the division's ERP system

Educates and mentors designers and engineers in the construction of accurate bill-of-material product structures and provide guidance, feedback, and direction from ECO Analysis

Manages the submittal and status of program CDRLs and SDRLs per data item descriptions (DID) and contractual requirements

June 2009

CMPIC Certification Acheived

Configuration Management Principles and Implementation (CMPIC) Certification through the Configuration Management Process Improvement Center and University of Houston - College of Technology Houston, Texas

March 2004 - July 2004

Senior PLM Analyst, Sycamore Networks (Contract)

Provided document change control and PLM expertise to the company while incumbent is on maternity leave using electronic data management/PLM tool Agile CM Release 8.5

Defined and generated part numbers, product bills-of-materials, and product structures- to the ERP master production schedule (MPS)/SKU level- using ASK MANMAN, SAP/R3, and automated release tools (UNIX scripts and APIs) in a client/server environment

ECO Analyst/Specialist, Boston Technology

Managed and directed engineering change order release efforts and created bill-of-material product structures for all software and technical documentation products including the scheduling and prioritizing of projects in a UNIX/ClearCase and ASK MANMAN MRPII environment

Elevated the execution of the software ECO release process and took it from a dysfunctional state to a professional level of operation – easing R&D relations with both the ECO review board and the manufacturing group – and provided continuous improvements in this area

Supervised and mentored other ECO Writers and provided configuration management and product data management expertise and closure to others in the organization

September 1995

CMIIC Certification Acheived

Configuration Management II (CMIIC) Certification through the Institute of Configuration Management and Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona

August 1993 - April 1994

ECO Analyst/Specialist, Thinking Machines Corporation

Coordinated, processed, and implemented on-line UNIX based ECO’s for all interconnect and electro-mechanical commodities for the Pathfinder and CM-5 massively parallel supercomputers on ASK MANMAN and INGRESS databases in a paperless environment